Cruise Planning
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Cruise Planning Course Description
Designed for members who plan to cruise for just a day or for a year--in either a sail or powerboat--this course covers the following topics:
- Cruise preparation and planning
- Boat and Equipment
- Anchors and Anchoring
- Security
- Chartering
- Cruising Outside the United States
- Crew and Provisioning
- Voyage Management
- Communications
- Navigation
- Weather
- Emergencies
The manual includes a twelve-month cruise planning timeline. The course is non-modular with one final exam.
Downloadable Material
Cruise Planning 2003 Update 01
Updates are provided to keep the course material as current as possible. The national course chairman welcomes all comments and suggestions. This Update includes submissions received by the Committee from interested Cruise Planning instructors and students. Contact the Committee Chairman if you have suggestions for course improvements.
Cruise Planning 2003 Update
01, dated 14 August 2004, is available in PDF format (73KB).
Cruise Planning 2003 PowerPoint® Presentation Slides
These PowerPoint slide presentations were created with PowerPoint 2002. You will need Microsoft PowerPoint or its free viewer to view or print these slides. See the Educational Department Help page to obtain a free viewer for these slides. The files are in compressed format (.zip) for faster downloads. (23 Jan 04)
| CP03 - Chapter 1 (657KB) |
| CP03 - Chapter 2 (1826KB) |
| CP03 - Chapter 3 (2485KB) |
| CP03 - Chapter 4,5,6 (467KB) |
| CP03 - Chapter 7 (1624KB) |
| CP03 - Chapter 8 (656KB) |
| CP03 - Chapter 9 (100KB) |
| CP03 - Chapter 10 (621KB) |
| CP03 - Chapter 11 (1379KB) |
| CP03 - Chapter 12 (552KB) |
| CP02 - Timeline (8KB) |
Weather Log
The following Weather Logs are for use in both the Cruise Planning and Weather courses.
- Weather Log in Acrobat format (PDF, 13KB)
- Weather Log in MS Excel format (XLS, 26KB)
Questions or Comments?
If you have any questions or comments about the Cruise Planning course, please contact the National Marine Environment Committee chairman by e-mail, phone or postal service mail. Please be sure to keep your SEO and/or DEO advised of any correspondence you may have with the National committee. Addresses for the National MEnvCom chairman are listed in The ENSIGN and on the Committee Chairpersons page.
We will try to answer your questions as soon as possible, but please allow 5 working days for an answer.
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